Advertising device



Oct. 23, 1928.

1,688,566 R. VAN AUSDALL v ADVERTISING DEvicE Filed Oct. 20, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet l y INVENTOR.

BY I v ATTORNEYS Oct. 23,1928. 1,686,566

R. VAN AUSDALL ADVERTISING DEVICE Filed 066/20, 192? 2 Sheets-:Sheet 2 INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

Patented Oct. 23, 1928.

UNITED ,sTATss' ROY VAN AUSDALL, OF REILLY, OHIO.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Application filed October 20, 1927., Serial. No. 227,572.

My invention relates to advertising devices, and particularly to illuminative devices which may be used for advertising smokers supplies, such as tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, pipes and the like.

It is the object of my invention to provide a casing which may be painted to represent a mammoth package of tobacco, pack of cigarettes, or box of cigars, which is-used for a support for a pipe, cigarette or cigar which is supported above the casing. It is also my object to provide a mammoth cigar, cigarette or pipe with an end which is covered with asbestos or the like to represent the ashes of tobacco and to internally illuminate the ash end so that the article will have the appearance of being lighted.

It is further my object to have the end of the smokers article encased in screening, and to provide a smoke projecting device which may be operated in conjunction with the illuminating device so that the ash end of the pipe, cigarette or cigar may be made to intermittently emit smoke which will increase the realistic impression which the public will receive when viewing the advertising device.

The above and other objects to which reference will be made during the ensuing disclosure I accomplish by that certain combination and arrangement of parts of which I have shown a preferred modification.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of an advertising device which may be carried on a truck chassis which includes a casing painted to present a mammoth package of cigarettes, with a mammoth artificial cigarette supported above the casing.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the device shown in Figure 1. v

Figure 3 is a section of the device taken along the lines 3-3 in Figure 2.

I have shown the device as mounted on a chassis frame 1 with the front end of the easing 2 provided with a door 3 which will permit the casing to be used for'storage purposes. Within the casing I have shown the intermittent flasher switch 4 with an electric line to the switch from the storage battery of the automobile which is indicated at 5. For emitting smoke I have provided a charcoal stove 6 with an electric blower 7 which operates when the switch is energized, and thereby causes the smoke which has formed in the stove to be blown up through the pipe 8 into the upper casing 9 which is shaped cigarette is open, and a wire basket 10 formed into tubular shape is demountably secured within the casing 9. The outer surface of the basket is coated with flaked asbestos or. otherwise decorated to give the appearance of ashes as indicated at 11. Within the has ket a cage of wire 12 is secured, which mounts the red colored shade 13. I have shown the electric light globe 14 with wires 15 leading from the switch 4. Extending out beyondthe colored shade 13 I have provided a tapered screen basket 16 of shiny wire material which I have found aids greatly in reflecting the colored rays emitted from the light globe, evenly throughout thelength of the ash portion.

The operation of the advertising device will be self evident. The driver of the truck fills his charcoal stove with charcoal and lights it before starting on a trip. He then turns on the switch which allows current to flow to the flasher switch. When the flasher switch closes the circuit the globe 14; lights up and atthe same time the blower puffs a cloud of smoke up through the pipe 8 into the upper casing so that in timed relation .to the lighting up of the end of the cigarette which represents the ashes, a puff of smoke is emitted apparently from the lighted end of the cigarette. The visual effect is quite unusual, and people who see the truck passing down the street will have their attention called very forcibly to the particular type of cigarette advertised.

Modifications in the particular structure shown will readily occur to those skilled in the art. The smoke emitting source may be installed in the cigarette or pipe or cigar, the flashing switch may also be installed within the upper tube, and the source of electric current may be an independent battery installed conveniently. While it is desirable that the electric light be turned on intermittently by some flasher type of switch, the control of the smoke emitting device might be controlled by a pedal or other connection which the driver can operate at will.

Further, while I have shown the mammoth sized parts which will be attractive for truck advertising, by reducing the size of the several structures, an attractive window display device may be similarly made.

Within the shade Having thus described my invention, What Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters- Patent, is

1. An advertising device comprising a casing shaped to represent a tobacco package, With a representation of an article to be smoked supported above said casing, an end of said article being open and having a hollow tubular screen covering the opening, with the outer side of the screen decorated to represent ashes, means for intermittently internally illuminating-the hollow screen, a source of smoke, and means for emitting smoke from said source through the Open end of said article.

2. An advertising device comprising a casing shaped to represent a tobacco package, with a representation oi an article to be smoked supported above by said casing, an end of said article being open and having a hollow tubular screen covering the opening,-

with the outer side of the screen decorated to represent ashes, means for intermittently internally illuminating the hollow screen, a source of smoke, and means for intermittently emitting smoke from said source through the open end of said article.

3. An advertising device comprising a casing shaped to represent a tobacco package, with a representation of an article to be smoked supported above said. casing, an end of said article being open and having a hollow tubular screen covering the opening, with the outer side of the screen decorated to represent ashes, means for intermittently internally illuminating the hollow screen, a source of smoke, and means for emitting smoke from said source through the open end of said article,. said means for internally illuminating said hollow screen comprising a light globe with a shiny wire basket extending within the tubular screen to di'l'l'use the light rays from the globe uniformly throughout the length of said tubular screen.

4. An advertising device comprising 2. casing shaped to represent a tobacco package,

nating and smoke emitting means in a definite cycle of timed operations.

5. A tubular article shaped and decorated so as to represent a smokers article such as a cigar, cigarette or pipe, said article being provided with a source of light therein, and being also provided with a source of smoke, an-

end of said article being open and havinga tubular screen extending from said opening decorated to simulate ashes, means for controlling the illumination of the open end of said article by said source of light, and means for controlling the projection of smoke from said source of smoke into said open end.

A tubular article shaped and decorated so as to represent a smokers article such as a cigar, cigarette or pipe, said article being provided with a source oflight therein,and being also provided with a source of smoke, an end oi said article being open and having a tubular screen extending from said opening decorated to simulate ashes, means for con-.

trolling the illumination of the open end 01 said article by said source of light, and means for controlling the projection of smoke from said source of smoke into said open end, and a tubular wire basket of polished wire within said tubular screen for diffusing the light evenly throughout the portion thereof decorated to represent ashes. I

ROY VAN AUSDALL. 

